Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on June 20, 2008 by CyberNet.

The other day we showed how you could get the Firefox 3 Vista theme on XP, or vice versa. Well, there is a theme out there for those of you who want to grab the Firefox 3 theme for Mac as well, and it works pleasantly well on Windows. The checkboxes, scrollbars, and buttons all take on a native Mac appearance.

I’m not sure if many of you will want to use the Mac theme on Windows because it doesn’t exactly fit in very well. Although it’s possible that you’re using a theme or mod (like this one) to make Windows look like a Mac, and this Firefox theme would help complete the look you’re shooting for. I suspect that this theme will work on Linux as well, and I’m sure someone will confirm this in the comments.

This theme is still experimental, which means you’ll need to login to the Mozilla site before being able to install it. If you don’t have a login you can use a generic one that I’ve created over at Mozilla:

• Username: firefox@cybernetnews.com
• Password: cybernetnews

Note: If someone decides to be funny and change the password just let us know. Since we have full control over the email address we can change the password back at anytime.

Get the Firefox 3 Mac theme for Windows

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This article was written on October 26, 2007 by CyberNet.

The New York Times got it right when they said, “It turns out someone does like Windows Vista, along with Office and the other stuff Microsoft sells.” Sure Windows Vista is getting bashed left and right, but people are buying it. In fact, consumers bought $1.1 billion dollars more in software than what analysts had originally projected. After Microsoft announced yesterday that their revenue for the first quarter (which ended September 30, 2007) was $13.76 billion, Microsoft shares went up 12 percent which added around $30 billion to its market value. Not a bad day in Microsoftland!

Their revenues of $13.76 billion was a 27% increase from the same quarter the previous year. What helped them with that giant swell was software like Vista and Office as well as the increase in sales of Xbox 360 consoles and the launch of Halo 3. Some of you may be thinking that the jump in revenue had more to do with an increase in the sales of Windows XP instead of Vista, but Kevin Johnson, president of the platform and Services Division said “Customer demand for Windows Vista this quarter continued to build with double-digit growth in multi-year agreements by businesses and with the vast majority of consumers purchasing premium editions.”

While software gave Microsoft a huge boost in revenue, their Internet sites lost pretty big. In all, they lost $264 million thanks in part to development of their Live line of services as well as their advertising business. This loss was a big increase compared to their loss of $102 million during the same quarter a year prior. They launched a lot of different online services this year though, and they’re just starting to get their advertising business off the ground (hopefully that acquisition of aQuantive will help) so the loss is somewhat understandable.

Losses in the Internet Sites division aside, the overall message here is that Microsoft had a huge quarter! Now that they’ve got aQuantive on board and an investment in Facebook, we’ll be keeping an eye out for how these investments turn into value for Microsoft. If Microsoft’s chief Steve Ballmer is correct, those investments will add huge value. He said that online advertising would grow to make up 25 percent of the company’s total revenue! Think it’s possible?

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This article was written on August 27, 2006 by CyberNet.

It turns out that a smaller Ribbon in the next release of Office 2007 was just a myth that was being spread. The UK Product Manager for Office 2007 was the one that dispelled these rumors.

There will still be the auto-hide feature which was mentioned a few days ago but they have not slimmed down the Ribbon. He believes that the new auto-hide feature was originally mistaken as them reducing the size of the Ribbon.

I actually like the amount of room that the Ribbon takes up because it makes it a lot easier to find what I am looking for. I’m not sure if I will auto-hide it but that is strongly dependent on how the feature will work. If I just have to hover over a menu to reveal the Ribbon then I will probably use it but I don’t think I would want an extra click.

Hopefully they will release the Office 2007 Technical Refresh soon because I’m sure it will be a great just like Beta 2 was. I have been using Beta 2 for months and there are only a few glitches that I’ve come across.

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This article was written on December 19, 2005 by CyberNet.

Microsoft has announced that it will no longer offer Internet Explorer downloads for Macintosh computers. This announcement was made over two years ago but by the end of January it will be in effect. Honestly, most people do not use Internet Explorer on their Mac’s, and often resort to Safari or Firefox. For those that do use Internet Explorer, however, hopefully we will start to see them switching to Firefox and picking up the pieces that Microsoft has left behind. This could prove to be another boost for Firefox in the browser war with Internet Explorer. If you are a user of the Macintosh Internet Explorer, then you might want to make a switch by December 31, 2005 because Microsoft will stop offering the security updates at that time.

News Source: Sydney Morning Herald

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Apple has really been successful with their Cover Flow representation of album covers, and with their latest Leopard operating system they even added a Cover Flow view for browsing files. This has to leave you wondering why you’re not able to browse your bookmarks in a similar fashion?

Well, thanks to this new Firefox extension (install it here) you can. As you visit websites that you’ve saved as bookmarks the extension will create a small JPG snapshot (about 30KB in size) that will be used when you open up your Bookmark Manager. In the Bookmark Manager you’ll see a Cover Flow-like interface for flipping through your bookmarks.

If you click on the View menu you can switch between the Details view (the one that looks like Cover Flow) or a regular Thumbnails view. The Thumbnails view tiles all of the websites on one page which might be a little more user friendly if you’re going through hundreds of bookmarks.

There is also a Create Previews option located under the File menu if you want to have the extension go through all of your bookmarks and grab previews for them. It’s all done in the background so you can go about doing your business in Firefox while it works, but it will likely take awhile if you have hundreds of bookmarks.

I estimate that each preview image is around 30KB in size, and about 30 previews will take up about 1MB of space. All of the JPG files are stored in your Firefox profile in a folder called bookmarkpreviews that will be deleted if you uninstall the extension.

Bookmark Previews Firefox Extension
Kudos to “Trip” for the tip!

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